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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1925.

LAMMERT BROS. C. F. WARREN & CO., LTD.

AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS

AND SURVEYORA,

Public Auctions

Undersigned have received In- Ttructions & coll by L'ublic auction

...

THURSDAY, 11th Jade, 1975,

commencing at 11 am

it their Sales Room, Daddell Street,

50 Electric Tablo Fans.

9.Bage Yellow Wax

4 Doz, Hegaro Bex Calf

3. Doz. Patent Sides

26 Bermox Sole Bends

1216 Chromo Bolo Half Shoulfors

40 Pairs Chrome Solo Bellies

12 Paire Chrome Sola Benda

6 Pairs Chrome Solo 8.des

8 Dozen. Bermox Beti Chrome Box

"Sidon

and

A Quantity of Miscellaneous Goods Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS., Aucllancark

on"

FRIDAY, 13th June, 1985, AD

commencing at 5.15 p.m.*

at their Sales Room, Daddell Street, & Fine Collection of Valuable Postage Stampa

including

Valuable Solections of Hongkong, Macao, Mauritius and other British Colonica etc., etc..

Catalogace will be issued

On View from Thursday the 11th

June, 1925

Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.

SATURDAY, 13th. Jane, 1925, commencing at 11.30 am.

at their Sales Room, Daddell Street,

A Quantity of Sult Lengths

On View on Day of Ba'e

Terms: Cash on delivery,

LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.

LEE KEE

Agent for

HENRY RICHARD

TILE CO'S.

We have a large stock of White Glazed Wall Tiles, Colour Glazed Wall Tiles, Coramio Mosaic Tilos, Geometrical Encautio Floor Tiles, Tile iro

Grates.

Inspection Invited.

Bhowroom: 21; Wellington St.

Tel. C. 1489

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SANITARY ENGINEERS.

THE CHINA MAIL.

ODDS AND ENDS

A Beetle to the Rescue.

Head Ofoe

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Hongkong.

Modern Sanitary Earthenware and

Bathroom Fittings. Domestic Boilers and Radiators.

Hand and Electrically Driven Pumpe. Instantauponu and Automatio Gas.

Water Heaters.

"Tiles of every description.

"FOR SALE ASIATIC AND FÖREIGN POSTAGE STAMPS

IN BAGS, POCKETS, SETS, AND SINGLE.

PICTORIAL POSTCARDS WITH CHINESE COSTUMES, VIEWS OF HONGKONG, CANTON, MACAO, &C. and ALBUM OF HONGKONG SCENES

GRACA & 00., Dealers in Philatelic Goods, Artistio Post Cards, Toys, Picture Books, &c. No. 10, Wyndham Strect,

Hongkong

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The Jew in Poland,

Squawkers.

about .1786,

the records of the March of the A twelve-year-old reader in There is a fearful toy sold in Highland Army as "Shians Regi- Bute writes to the "Children's America known as a squawker, of ment." It got its name from its Newspaper" to say that, as he was which a mild imitation is to be dis- Colonel, Chieftain Menzies of

the digging in garden, he covered in the toy shops in Bri-Shian and Glenquich, who is Sir accidentally covered up a beetle tain (points out the "Manchester Walter Scott's "Waverley" char- Το

quote the acter, The Vich Ian Vhor" of with soil, when, to his great sur-Guardian"), prise, another beetle came to the words of the manufacturers "A Shian and Glenquich. As Sir rescue, started scraping away the feature of this squawker is that Robert, the third Baronet of mould, and soon released the it makes a loud and continuous Menzies, was somewhat lame and noise, due to the fact that it is bodily unfit to lead out the clan, first beetle...

provided with two squawker he appointed, stems." But noise is not the only Archibald Menzies of Shian, his feature of the squawker; by mani- factor, with secret instructions to pulation of the lips it can be made train the clan to arms and lend them out when a rising for the to shriek "pappa" and "mamma," terms which, by the way, are quite Royal Stuarts took place. Shinn led out Clan Menzies in 1745, and out of fashion.

they fought victoriously at Prestonpans, Clifton, and Falkirk, but suffered the loss of about 200 at the Battle of Culloden. In memory of his clansmen who fell there the present Sir David Menzies, 9th Baronet of that ilk, sent to the cairn'on Culloden Moor a wreath made of ivy from the"" walls of his ancient castle, Plean Menzies Castle, near Bannock- burn, on which was inscribed in red Celtic letters on a white shield in its centre-"Ivy from the walls of Plean Castle. memory of Menzies Clansmen who fell at Culloden, from Sir David Menzies, 9th Baronet."

Mrs. Sandys-Lumsdaine.

Poland is an agricultural coun- try, but the Enst Jews, unlike the West Jews, play a large part in its country life. Every estate and every village has its Jew, who holds a sort of hereditary position in them; he markets the produce

Lieut.-Coly of the peasants and makes their

Francis Sandys purchases for them in towns; Lumadnine; of Kitronny, Bridge of every Polish landowner or noble Allan has lost his wife, who was had his own Jew, who did all his Edith eldest daughter of Mr. and business for him, managed the the late Mrs. R. B. Magor, Slic commercial part of his estate, and was only 54. The Sandys found him money. Till modern Lumadainos are an old family whose times it was actual law, and in headquarters have boon for over modern times a rigorous étiquette, six centuries at Blanerne, in that no Polish noble, small or Berwickshire (says the Star") great, might buy or sell. Even if Blanerne Cottage is now occupied he wanted to buy a horse from aby the bereaved Colonel's brother, friend, he sent his Jews to do it. Mr. E. R. J. Sandys-Lumsinine; Captain Peter E. Wright in the who married a sister of Mr. Francis "Empire. Review."

Stuart Hay, of Duns Casile. Vice- Lieutenant, of Berwickshire. A Tumsdaine acted as secretary to "Bonnie Prince Charlie" nbroad, and the family trensures include a miniature of the Prince, which the

after presented to him.

Smiles From A Hospital.

"Mystery" Messages.

A. L.

Lining the Car.

In

Walking with me through the

The other day I admired the wards of my hospital the other

pretty floral lining to a well-known Woman's motor "CALE (writes day, a well-known dramatist

"Gadabout** in tho "Daily remarked that he would rather

Chronicle.") "Yes, this is ny visit a hospital than a dozen theatres (writes Philip Inman in

spring lining," she said. "I have The identity of the medium different lining for each season the "Star"). In a theatre,, he said, one sees play-acting, but in through whom the amazing series of the year, and ench time a fresh a hospital humanity is bared to of letters which helped to the find-lining is put in I feel as if I have got a new car!" The seasonal lin- the bone. The late Lord Curzoning of the body of Mr. once gave expression to the same Henderson, the Cupar man who is an idea which may appeal idea. He was presiding over a lost his life on Ben Achallader, is to many car owners who have not medical dinner when he said that now known (says the "Dundee thought of it for themselves. After a person knows a man at his best; Advertiser"). He is Mr. Norman all, firings have to go to be cleaned a lawyer knows him at his worst; M'Diarmid, of Buchanness Lodge, sometimes, and one may just as well summer touch but only a doctor knows him as Boddam, a hamlet on the out-have a spring or

A friend about the inside of the car us be he really is. A hospital; never-skirts of Peterhead. theless, is not the sordid place gave the following account of stereotyped with a plain everyday many people imagine. It is in-him-He simply sits down with sort of lining. tensely human and throbs with a paper on his knee and a pencil multicoloured life. Not long ago in hand, which commences to The written we had a woman patient who was write hackwards.

Fritz Baedeker, publisher of the suffering from cancer of the matter has the appearance of celebrated guide books in succession throat. Over her bed she had what might appear on" blotting

to his father, Karl, has just died at placed this motto, "When your paper after it had been used to Leipzig (reports the "Evening throat is sore. be thankful you are dry the ink of a communication, inndard.") The "Baedeker" has not a giraffe." In the "Incur and has to be read by means of a provided in its time much material able" ward this is the swan song mirror. There was nothing in for enricaturists who made it the chosen by the sufferers them- the nature of a seance about the indispensablo attribute of the raw selves:Remember the steam- meeting which was purely a globe-trotting tourist. But in point kettle though up to its neck in social affair in my own sitting-of fact even the most hardened TUNG SANG hot water, it still continues to room. As a matter of fact, I was travellers generally had it some sing." One woman, 35 years of pottering about with my wireless where; I suspect, concealed about age, who fractured her spine set at the time.

their luggage. For the hardened (which means that in all pro-

traveller avants maps and tram routes, and these Baedeker provid- ed in abundance, and until the war Among the clans who fought made his hotel lists and prices neces and bled for the Royal Stuartsarily out of date they were quite and "Bonnie Prince Charlie" was extraordinarily accurate and ré- Clan Menzies, who are recorded in 'liable.

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Hongkong, March 20, 1914.

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bability, she will never walk A Culloden Memory. again) has adopted Robert Louis Stevenson's maxim, "To travel hopefully is better than to arrive" Yes, the dramatist is right. One does see life-in a hospital.

"Baedeker" and Its Uses.

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